"Tycoon (novel) Tycoon (sometimes subtitled ""Tycoon: A Novel""), published in 1997, is the 23rd novel by Harold Robbins. Starting in the 1930s and ending in the 1970s, it follows the career and love-life of Jack Lear, an entrepreneur who builds an empire in broadcasting. Typically for a Robbins novel, it contains a large amount and variety of sexual content. ""Kirkus Reviews"" describes it as a ""roman à clef"", with Lear's career resembling that of William S. Paley. A review by Reed Business Information inc. concludes: """"Wooden prose notwithstanding, the intricate blend of corporate intrigue and carnal gymnastics makes this a"
"The Last Tycoon The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1941, it was published posthumously under this title, as prepared by his friend Edmund Wilson, a critic and writer. According to ""Publishers Weekly,"" the novel is ""[g]enerally considered a roman a clef,"" with its lead character, Monroe Stahr, modeled after historic film producer Irving Thalberg. The story follows Stahr's rise to power in Hollywood, and his conflicts with rival Pat Brady, a character based on prominent studio head Louis B. Mayer. It was adapted as a TV play in 1957 and a film in 1976"
"world to her. Fitzgerald wrote the novel in a blend of first person and third person narrations. While the story is ostensibly told by Cecelia, many scenes are narrated in which she is not present. Occasionally a scene will be presented twice, once through Cecelia and once through a third party. The revised edition of ""The Love of The Last Tycoon"" won the Choice Outstanding Academic Books award of 1995. The Last Tycoon The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1941, it was published posthumously under this title, as prepared by his friend Edmund Wilson,"
"Tycoon (1947 film) Tycoon is a 1947 American Technicolor romance film directed by Richard Wallace and starring John Wayne. It is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by C.E. Scoggins. Johnny Munroe (John Wayne) travels to South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel for Frederick Alexander (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), a wealthy industrialist. Complications arise when Alexander insists upon a shorter, more dangerous passage and when his daughter Maura (Laraine Day) develops a romantic interest with Johnny. Maureen O'Hara was originally cast as Wayne's leading lady, but RKO put her in ""Sinbad the Sailor"" instead. Set in"
"Dyan Sheldon Dyan Sheldon is an American novelist, who has written for adults, children and young adults. Originally from Brooklyn, she resides in London and has written a number of young adult novels as well as many picture books in a variety of genres. Her young adult science-fiction novel ""Perfect"" was published under the name ""D. M. Quintano"", as it was a departure from her usual style. Dyan Sheldon's novel ""Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen"", a #1 New York Times bestseller, was made into a movie of the same name by Disney in 2004, starring Lindsay Lohan. Adult novels"
"The First Tycoon The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt is a 2009 biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist who built his fortune in the shipping and railroad industries, becoming one of the wealthiest Americans in the history of the U.S. It was written by American biographer T. J. Stiles. The book was honored with the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Stiles spent seven years researching and studying the life and worldwide influence of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the patriarch of the Vanderbilt dynasty who made"
"Mason & Dixon Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by U.S. author Thomas Pynchon published in 1997. It presents a fictionalized account of the collaboration between Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in their astronomical and surveying exploits in Cape Colony, Saint Helena, Great Britain and along the Mason-Dixon line in British North America on the eve of the Revolutionary War in the United States. The novel is a frame narrative told from the focal point of one Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke – a clergyman of dubious orthodoxy – who, on a cold December evening in 1786, attempts to entertain and"
"Typhoon (novella) Typhoon is a novella by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in ""Pall Mall Magazine"" in January–March 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902; it was also published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann in 1903. ""Typhoon"" is a classic sea yarn, possibly based upon Conrad's actual experience of seaman's life, and probably on a real incident aboard of the steamer ""John P. Best"" (according to the book by Jerry Allen on the ""Sea years of Joseph Conrad"", first published in 1965). The author of the mentioned book"
"of the same name, with a screenplay for the latter by British playwright Harold Pinter. Elia Kazan directed the 1976 film adaptation; Robert De Niro and Theresa Russell starred. In 1993, a new version of the novel was published under the title The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew Bruccoli, a Fitzgerald scholar. This version was adapted for a stage production that premiered in Los Angeles, California in 1998. In 2013, HBO announced plans to produce an adaptation. HBO cancelled the project and gave the rights to Sony Pictures, which produced and released the television series on Amazon"
"Bruccoli reworked the extant seventeen chapters of the thirty-one planned according to his interpretation of the author's notes. Set in the 1930s, ""The Last Tycoon"" traces the life of Hollywood studio manager Monroe Stahr, clearly based on Irving Thalberg (head of the film company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), whom Fitzgerald had encountered several times. The novel begins with young NYC college student Cecelia Brady (first-person narrator), the daughter of influential Hollywood producer Pat Brady, preparing to fly home to Los Angeles. At the airport, she is surprised to meet an old friend of her father, author Wylie White. White is accompanied by a"
"The Turquoise The Turquoise is a novel, written by the American author Anya Seton which was first published in 1946. It is a fictional story of the life of Fey Cameron set against an historical background of the United States and New York society in the mid 19th century. The book focuses on Fey Cameron, from her humble childhood in New Mexico, through to her high society life in New York, and her eventual return to her roots. Born in 1850 of a Spanish mother and a Scotsman in New Mexico, and orphaned at a young age in the town"
"during the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s-1940's. ""The Last Tycoon"" is an unfinished novel written by Fitzgerald, but left incomplete before his death about a studio executive Monroe Stahr, and later adapted into The Last Tycoon starring Robert De Niro. Stahr is living for his job, focusing on nothing else but work, and is now suffering from a heart condition. The point of view of this novel is told through Cecelia Brady, the daughter of one of Stahr’s fellow executives. She flirts with him, and wants to start some kind of love affair, but he is too wrapped"
"The Last Tycoon (1976 film) The Last Tycoon is a 1976 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Sam Spiegel, based upon Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Last Tycoon"". It stars Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell and Ingrid Boulting. The film was the second collaboration between Kazan and Spiegel, who worked closely together to make ""On the Waterfront"". Fitzgerald based the novel's protagonist, Monroe Stahr, on film producer Irving Thalberg. Spiegel was once awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. ""The Last Tycoon"""
"The Last Tycoon (TV series) The Last Tycoon is an American television series, originating from a pilot produced in 2016 as part of Amazon Studios' seventh pilot season. The show stars Matt Bomer and Kelsey Grammer and is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's last book ""The Last Tycoon"". Amazon picked up the pilot to series on July 27, 2016. The first season premiered on July 28, 2017. On September 9, 2017, Amazon cancelled the series. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's last book ""The Last Tycoon"" published posthumously, the show takes place in 1936 Hollywood. Monroe Stahr, loosely based on"
"O’Malley’s book, ""The Rook"". The show will be shown on Hulu and a yet to be announced UK channel. In July 2016, it was announced that she had written an adult action thriller titled ""The Chemist"", about ""an ex-agent on the run from her former employers"". The book was released on November 8, 2016. Stephenie Meyer Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan; ; born December 24, 1973) is an American novelist and film producer, best known for her vampire romance series ""Twilight"". The ""Twilight"" novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer"
"Studios in 2016. The novel was unfinished and in rough form at the time of Fitzgerald's death at age 44. The literary critic and writer Edmund Wilson, a close friend of Fitzgerald, collected the notes for the novel and edited it for publication. The unfinished novel was published in 1941 as ""The Last Tycoon,"" by which name it is best known. In 1993, another version of the novel was published under the title ""The Love of the Last Tycoon,"" as part of the Cambridge edition of the ""Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald,"" edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, a Fitzgerald scholar."
"Alhazred (novel) Alhazred is a 2006 novel by Cthulhu Mythos writer Donald Tyson. The book is a follow-up to Tyson's 2004 ""translation"" of the ""Necronomicon"". Like Tyson's ""Necronomicon"" and related works, ""Alhazred"" draws heavily from the work of early 20th-century American fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. The book is written as an autobiographical account of the life of Abdul Alhazred, the author of the legendary grimoire known as the ""Necronomicon"". The book does not draw on any previous accounts of Alhazred's life, but portrays him instead as a tragic antihero. The book begins with a short narrative describing how Alhazred"
"the young and beautiful in Hollywood, embodied by the beach house, have great significance for both the Novelist and Director at the end of their luminary careers. The critical reaction to ""The Last Tycoon"" has been mixed. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively collected reviews from 18 critics to give it a rating of 44%. The Last Tycoon (1976 film) The Last Tycoon is a 1976 American drama film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Sam Spiegel, based upon Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Last Tycoon"". It stars Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack"
"Toni Morrison Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for ""Beloved"". The novel was adapted into a film of the same name (starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover) in 1998. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. She was honored with the 1996 National Book"
"The Last Tycoons The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. is the debut book by William D. Cohan. It was released on April 3, 2007 by Doubleday. It focuses on the history of the prominent investment bank Lazard Frères. The book won the 2007 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. William D. Cohan, as of 2013 an author of three ""New York Times"" best-selling books about Wall Street, is a contributing editor at ""Vanity Fair"", and a former award-winning investigative newspaper reporter based in Raleigh, North Carolina. He worked on Wall"
"26, 1997; it remained on the list for five weeks, rising to number 13. In 1997 Silva left CNN to pursue writing full-time. Since then Silva has written 20 more spy novels, all best-sellers on ""The New York Times"" list. The main focus is Gabriel Allon, an Israeli art restorer, spy and assassin, who is a key figure in all but three of Silva's titles. The series has been a ""The New York Times"" bestseller since its first installment in 2001. Seven of the series' titles hit number one on ""The New York Times"" list of best sellers (Bibliography, below)."
"The Tycoon (TV series) The Tycoon is a 32-episode American sitcom television series broadcast by ABC. It starred Walter Brennan as the fictitious businessman Walter Andrews, similar to his birth name of Walter Andrew Brennan. As chairman of the board of the Thunder Corporation that he founded but no longer actively runs, Brennan plays an eccentric and cantankerous millionaire (when such persons were much fewer in number) with a common touch who helps promising persons in need. The series aired with new episodes at 9 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday from September 15, 1964, until April 27, 1965. It continued in"
"Endymion (Simmons novel) Endymion is the third science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons, part of his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. Centered on the new characters Aenea and Raul Endymion, it has been well received like ""Hyperion"" and ""The Fall of Hyperion"" - within a year of its release, the paperback edition had gone through five reprints. The novel was shortlisted for the 1997 Locus Award. The story opens 274 years after the Fall of Hyperion, in which Hegemony CEO Meina Gladstone ordered the destruction of all farcaster singularities to stop the TechnoCore from eliminating humankind. However, the loss"
"Scorpions (novel) Scorpions is a young adult novel written by Walter Dean Myers, first published in the United States by Harper & Row on June 20, 1988. It was a Newbery Medal Honor Book in 1989. Jamal is trying to get his brother, Randy, out of jail. Randy is a 17-year-old who is the leader of the Scorpions, a local gang of drug dealers in New York City. Jamal's family includes himself, Randy, his mother, his 8-year-old sister whose name is Sassy, and his father, Jeovon Hicks. Jamal's father became an alcoholic after losing his job and began abusing Jamal's"
"the famous producer Irving Thalberg, battles his boss Pat Brady. The Last Tycoon (TV series) The Last Tycoon is an American television series, originating from a pilot produced in 2016 as part of Amazon Studios' seventh pilot season. The show stars Matt Bomer and Kelsey Grammer and is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's last book ""The Last Tycoon"". Amazon picked up the pilot to series on July 27, 2016. The first season premiered on July 28, 2017. On September 9, 2017, Amazon cancelled the series. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's last book ""The Last Tycoon"" published posthumously, the show"
"Gridiron (novel) Gridiron is a science fiction novel written by British author Philip Kerr. It is a story about a highly technical building (nicknamed The Gridiron), which becomes self-aware and tries to kill everyone inside, confusing real life with a video game. Ray Richardson and his top team of architects have developed a super-smart building for Yue-Kong Yu's business, the Yu Corporation. It is very much self-standing. It can clean itself, uses holograms as greeters in the reception, controls the lifts, toilets, and offices, and digitizes everyone's voice on entry, to allow them to use voice activated services in the"
"Young adult novels Children's novels Picture books Dyan Sheldon Dyan Sheldon is an American novelist, who has written for adults, children and young adults. Originally from Brooklyn, she resides in London and has written a number of young adult novels as well as many picture books in a variety of genres. Her young adult science-fiction novel ""Perfect"" was published under the name ""D. M. Quintano"", as it was a departure from her usual style. Dyan Sheldon's novel ""Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen"", a #1 New York Times bestseller, was made into a movie of the same name by Disney"
"Disclosure (novel) Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton and published in 1994. The novel is set at a fictional computer hardware manufacturing company in the mid-1990s. The plot concerns protagonist Tom Sanders and his struggle to prove that he was sexually harassed by his female employer. Tom Sanders, the head of advanced products manufacturing at DigiCom, expects to be promoted to run the advanced products division after DigiCom's merger with a publishing house. Instead, the promotion is given to his ex-girlfriend, Meredith Johnson, who recently moved to Seattle from the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California. Later that day, Meredith"
"Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of six novels, including his debut work, the 1999 novel ""The Intuitionist"", and ""The Underground Railroad"" (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has also published two books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship (""Genius Grant""). Whitehead was born in New York City on November 6, 1969, and grew up in Manhattan. He attended Trinity School in Manhattan. Whitehead graduated from Harvard University in 1991; in college he"
"Christian Cameron Christian Gordon Cameron (born August 16, 1962), who writes under the pen names Gorden Kent and Miles Cameron, is a Canadian novelist, who was educated and trained as both an historian and a former career officer in the US Navy. His best-known work is the ongoing historical fiction series ""Tyrant"", which by 2009 had sold over 100,000 copies. Cameron was born in the US, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1962 and grew up in Rochester, NY, and Iowa City, Iowa, as well as Rockport, Massachusetts. He attended high school at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, NY, and got"
"Interface (novel) Interface is a 1994 novel by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George (a pseudonym of George Jewsbury) and originally published under the joint pseudonym Stephen Bury. Reprints of the novel have credited the work to Stephenson and George . It is a thriller, set in the then-future year of 1996 when a shadowy coalition bent on controlling the world economy attempts to manipulate a candidate for president of the United States through the use of a computer biochip brain implant. It was described by writer Cory Doctorow in 2007 as an ""underappreciated masterpiece"". Illinois governor William Cozzano suffers"
"Nate Kenyon Nate Kenyon is an American author of thrillers, science fiction, and horror novels and short fiction. His latest book, Day One, was released by Thomas Dunne Books on October 1, 2013. Day One is about sentient machines taking over New York City. Kenyon's first novel, ""Bloodstone"" (Five Star Publishing, 2006; Leisure Books, 2008), was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist and was voted the Preditors and Editors Horror Novel of the Year for 2006. His second novel, ""The Reach"", was also a Bram Stoker Award Finalist. ""The Reach"" received a starred ""Publishers Weekly"" review, and was optioned for film."
"Tachyon Publications Tachyon Publications is an independent press specializing in science fiction and fantasy books. Founded in San Francisco in 1995 by Jacob Weisman, Tachyon books have tended toward high-end literary works, short story collections, and anthologies. In 2013, Tachyon's publication ""After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall"" by Nancy Kress won the Nebula Award and Locus Award for best novella. Also in 2013, Tachyon's publication of ""The Emperor's Soul"" by Brandon Sanderson won the Hugo Award for best novella. From 1992-1994, Weisman also published ""Thirteenth Moon"" magazine, which featured short stories, poetry and essays by authors including"